2.34.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

2.34.2.1 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/534/is-there-any-way-to-do-a-correct-word-count-of-a-latex-document

Often assignments (or even papers) have a word count limit. That is not a big deal when using Word, but I don't know how to do that using LaTeX. My solution has been so far to compile the document and  ...
 

- asked by Vivi (230 votes), answered by ShreevatsaR (124 votes)

2.34.2.2 How can I get bold math symbols?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/595/how-can-i-get-bold-math-symbols

To make Latin-letter variables bold I can use e.g. \mathbf{a}, but while putting Greek letters or symbols such as \nabla inside \mathbf doesn't cause any errors or warnings, it also doesn't do  ...
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

- asked by Michael Underwood (214 votes), answered by Mark Meckes (183 votes)